We present a language technology service for web editors’ work on making texts easier to understand, including tools for text complexity analysis, text simplification and text summarization. We also present a text analysis service focusing on measures of text complexity.

This work uses the L-system to construct a tree structure for the text sequence and derives its complexity [1]. It serves as a measure of structural complexity of the text. It is applied to anomaly detection in data transmission. Keyword: text complexity, anomaly detection, structural complexity, rewriting rule, context-free grammar, L-system

As part of its nonprofit mission, ETS conducts and disseminates the results of research to advance quality and equity in education and assessment for the benefit of ETS's constituents and the field. To obtain a PDF or a print copy of a report, please visit: Abstract The Common Core Standards call for students to be exposed to a much greater level of text complexity than has been the norm in sch...

the absence of an obvious image from the quiddity of historiography text has led to difficulty and complexity in conceptualizing and theorizing within the domain of theoretical studies of history. this difficulty has been extended even in the identification of applicability of historiography text by the researchers in the domain of historiography. it seems that solving this problem is in need o...

Due to the fact that emergency situations can lead to substantial losses, both financial and in terms of human lives, it is essential that texts used in a crisis situation be clearly understandable. This thesis is concerned with the study of the complexity of the crisis management sub-language and with methods to produce new, clear texts and to rewrite pre-existing crisis management documents w...

This study aimed at investigating the impact of writing on Iranian EFL college students’ rhetorical organization. Thirty Iranian female undergraduate students majoring in English at Al-zahra University participated in the current study. The writing instructions included two stages, each lasting for four weeks. The participants were assigned to a control group and an experimental group according...